Saturday, July 18, 2015

I am unexpectedly delighted to see Opus is back. Time to break out my Billy and the Boingers T-shirt.
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Opus (@frombloomcounty) | Twitter
https://twitter.com/frombloomcounty
The latest Tweets from Opus (@frombloomcounty): "Hellooo. Oop kk-2$$Anyone there. ? Halllooo. Boy I'm hopin this a support group for birds."

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

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Everything you think you know about disciplining kids is wrong
http://bit.ly/1HPkLoR
Negative consequences, timeouts, and punishment just make bad behavior worse. But a new approach really works.

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Civil disobedience & athleticism. Bravo.
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Confederate Flag Protest: Two Arrested at South Carolina Statehouse
http://nbcnews.to/1GDudqv
Two activists were arrested early Saturday after one removed the Confederate flag from a pole outside South Carolina's Statehouse.

Monday, June 22, 2015

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Justice Kagan's top Spider-Man jokes from today's patent case
http://bit.ly/1FxyDyn
"What we can decide, we can undecide," she writes, "but stare decisis teaches that we should exercise that authority sparingly."

Friday, June 19, 2015

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Rugby World Cup
http://on.fb.me/1Sv84TP
#TBT to the Rugby World Cup 2011 final and the New Zealand haka performed in front of the French arrow! Spine tingling Les frissons de la Coupe du Monde de Rugby 2011

Saturday, June 6, 2015

I like your new haircut @Emily
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Essie Davis: On Playing A Sexually Liberated 'Superhero' Without Apology
http://n.pr/1GrYr5V
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries is an Australian TV series with a passionate American audience. Davis plays Phryne Fisher, a free-thinking, deeply independent private detective.

Thursday, May 14, 2015

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Putting Archer Quotes On James Bond Images? Pure Genius!
http://bit.ly/1G8Ysdq
Read most of these in Sean Connery's voice. "I'm Schorry, I couldn't hear you over the schound of my throbbing..." Hahaha

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

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A Cancer Survivor Designs the Cards She Wishes She’d Received From Friends and Family
http://slate.me/1AGhbH0
Los Angeles–based designer Emily McDowell was diagnosed with stage 3 Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age 24, enduring nine months of chemo and radiation before going into remission. “The most difficult part of my illness wasn’t losing my hair, or being erroneously called ‘sir’ by Starbucks baristas, or sickne…

Friday, April 24, 2015

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27 Reasons Why Living In Chicago Will Spoil You For Life
http://bit.ly/1ISzHRc
Chicago is the most visited location in the Midwest by a long shot, but it's not just the tourism that makes this city so great: it is the city itself. If you live here long enough, you won't be able to imagine living anywhere else.

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Indiana folk, have any of you opted your kids out of the standardized tests yet?

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Mom: The religious reasons my kids won’t be taking Common Core tests

http://wapo.st/1OZDYWN

'Every Sunday, we recite seven principles that unite Unitarian Universalists. Most of these principles are basic moral and philosophical statements shared by all of the world’s major religions. They reflect the common values of most faiths, from “love one another” and “do unto others,” to respect fo…